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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #12: Hengyang, Hunan Province to Jinggangshan, Jiangxi Province slow train. A trip back in time when my family lived here 1990-1997. Eight 1mn videos with 15 captioned photos.

Location Hengyang (衡阳), Hunan Province (湖南省) to Jinggangshan (井冈山),Jiangxi Province (江西省)   Videos #1 Transcript A nostalgic trip back to when my family lived in China 1990-1997 This is a typical train station when we lived in China from 1990 to 1997. These are the local/regional trains, the green trains that have hard seats. They’re…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #11: Yueyang, Hunan Province. Chinese (free!) public museums are some of the best in the world, even smaller, municipal ones. With a number of photos.

Location Yueyang (岳阳), Hunan Province   We did a too-short visit of the Yueyang Municipal Museum, as the afternoon was running out of time. Municipal museums, like provincial ones, are always free. Please note that all free museums in China are closed on Mondays. We are only showing you the section panels from the museum….

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #10: Yueyang, Hunan Province. Yueyang Pagoda goes back to 1,400 years and then Mao Zedong made it a modern-day shrine. Short video with a number of photos.

Location Yueyang (岳阳) Pagoda, Hunan Province Video Transcript Mao’s calligraphic style is so unique and recognizable, that it is a font offered on today’s computers! This is a reproduction of calligraphy by Mao Zedong, in his very, very unique style. The people venerate him so much, you can see over on the left, what looks like a…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #9: Yueyang, Hunan Province. Dongting Lake is Yangtze (Changjiang) River’s natural release valve to control flooding. Two short videos with photos and map.

Location Yueyang (岳阳) Port Industry Site Public Park and Pagoda, Hunan Province Videos #1 #2   Photos by Amir   View of Dongting Lake from the top of Yueyang Pagoda,which will be our next report.   Ibid. Internet photos   Naturally, with its heart-shaped Jushan island, Dongting Lake is considered romantic among the people. Dongting…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #8: Yueyang, Hunan Province. its massive statue of Houyi, who saved the world from burning up and who is married to Chang’e, the Moon Goddess. Photos and the story…

Yueyang (岳阳) Port Industry Site Public Park, Hunan Province   The Story of Chang’e and Houyi   Chang’e is a central character of Mid-Autumn Festival tradition. As Goddess of the Moon, she is remembered during Mid-Autumn Festival, a.k.a. the Moon Festival.How did Chang’e rise up and land on the Moon? What’s the story of Chang’e,…

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Patrice Greanville shares a double-10 of super articles, podcasts and videos for your week’s watching, reading, sanity and existential survival.

China Writers’ Group is your one-stop knowledge shop to understand reality behind the West’s Big Lie Propaganda Machine headlines! 19-Jul  — Solzhenitsyn and the Weaponization of Dissidents https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/07/19/solzhenitsyn-and-the-weaponization-of-dissidents/ 19-Jul  — Israel, the US and Iran: the war has only just begun https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/07/19/israel-the-us-and-iran-the-war-has-only-just-begun/ 19-Jul  — TARIFFS AND SANCTIONS https://www.greanvillepost.com/2025/07/19/tariffs-and-sanctions/ 19-Jul  — JFK JR’S SUSPICIOUS DEATH +…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #7: Yueyang, Hunan Province. How does your city stack up to this 3rd-tier Sino-burg of six million? Two short videos with photos.

Arriving in Yueyang, Hunan Province Videos #1 Transcript A “punk” city of “only” 5-6 million people So, we just arrived in Yueyang. This is a punk city of only 5- 6 million people. Which is nothing in China. I mean, this is like a fourth-tier city. We’re a couple of hundred kilometers north of Changsha….

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #6: Ruijin, Jiangxi Province. Amir waxes with a humorous, anecdotal post and its six photos.

Notes while Traveling A Review of 7 Days Inn Disposable Towels By Amir Khan At first glance, this seems something of an advanced and futuristic commodity, the brainchild of some savant Japanese inventor: novel, compact, clean and hygienic. Any cursory trip to Japan leaves the weary traveler turning over this question in his head: why…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #4: we ask you: do you prefer paying for guns around the world or 21st century infrastructure? The Chinese have made their choice. 3mn video.

Video Transcript Hundreds of new train stations and thousands of high-speed trains a day I am here in Shenzhen North Station train station. Shenzhen alone has six stations like this. This architectural style is all over China. Fifteen years ago or so, they took this plan and built literally hundreds of train stations like this…

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Amir&Jeff’s Excellent China Adventure #5: Yueyang, Hunan Province: Song Dynasty (900AD-1,200AD) Confucius Temple. Five short videos with 15 photos.

Videos #1 Transcript What were Westerners doing 900AD-1,200AD? It was called the Dark Ages: economic decline, cultural stagnation, pestilence and limited written records. China NOT! So, we are in the Confucist Temple in Yueyang. Obviously, these are not Song Dynasty relics, but these would be a bit more like it. These are obviously statues showing people here…

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